Strike looms over plans to cut rail jobs
Union members vote for industrial action
City rail maintenance workers could strike over job cuts in the next few weeks.
Members of the RMT union nationally have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in protest at job losses.
Network Rail plans to axe jobs of 106 track workers at the Bletchley depot and 1,300 others at other locations around the country.
The union said it could not "sit back and wait for these cash-led maintenance cuts to lead to another major disaster on Britain's railways."
Network Rail reacted: "The way the railway is maintained and operated needs to change.
"Work practices that date back to the steam age should no longer have a place on a modern railway.
"We cannot allow the unions to hold this country to ransom."
The union called for fresh talks on the issue
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